The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 90

It was now dark, and as the prince could see nothing, he was obliged, not without some feeling of disquiet, to allow the horse to direct his own course, and midnight was already passed before Prince Firouz Schah again touched the ground, faint and weary from his long ride, and from the fact that he had eaten nothing since early morning.

Who acts: earth, Firouz · What happens: be, see, oblige, allow, direct, pass · To what, where: nothing, Firouz, horse, own course, midnight, ground

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, Firouz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 obliged	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 obliged	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 obliged	aux:pass
16	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 see	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feeling	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 feeling	advmod
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 feeling	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 feeling	det
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 obliged	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 disquiet	case
23	disquiet	disquiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feeling	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 allow	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 allow	mark
26	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 see	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horse	det
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 allow	iobj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 direct	mark
30	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 allow	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 course	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 course	amod
33	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 direct	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 passed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 passed	cc
36	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 passed	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 passed	aux:pass
38	already	already	ADV	_	39 passed	advmod
39	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dark	conj
40	before	before	SCONJ	_	45 touched	mark
41	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Firouz	nmod:desc
42	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 touched	nsubj
43	Schah	Schah	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Firouz	flat
44	again	again	ADV	_	45 touched	advmod
45	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 passed	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 ground	det
47	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 touched	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 faint	punct
49	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ground	amod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 weary	cc
51	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 faint	conj
52	from	from	ADP	_	55 ride	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 ride	nmod:poss
54	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ride	amod
55	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 faint	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 eaten	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 eaten	cc
58	from	from	ADP	_	60 fact	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 fact	det
60	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 eaten	obl
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 eaten	mark
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 eaten	nsubj
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 eaten	aux
64	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dark	conj
65	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	64 eaten	obj
66	since	since	ADP	_	68 morning	case
67	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 morning	amod
68	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 eaten	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	earth				now	dark property	tree rules
2	see	could		nothing				as the prince	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus as prince=Attribute
3	oblige	past · passive		Firouz				without some feeling of disquiet	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	allow	to-infinitive			the horse				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer horse=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	direct not said to happen	to-infinitive		Firouz's own course					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent course=Eventuality
6	pass	past · passive		midnight					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
7	touch	past	Firouz Prince	the ground			again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
8	eat	past · perfect	Firouz	nothing		the fact	morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	ride		Firouz						nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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